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This may be the worst post that I have ever seen on any of the boards that I am affliated with. Did you observe these young men at camp? Did you evaluate the upside of these two excellent young men? Have you any training in evauating talent? How did you form your judgment of their lack of upside? What does Saban putting the best players on the field have to do with the ability of these two young men? Do you have a problem with the guys that Les has on special teams? Which players do you think should not be on the LSU special team? And you made this evaluation on your own and have never seen them play.

I said, in the original post:

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Obviously I've never seen these two play in person and am operating under assumption and intuition more than true insight, so I would like to be proven wrong.

I shouldn't comment on your post since your criticism had already been addressed and acknowledged, but I tried to make it as clear as possible that I am just a dude who follows LSU recruiting and LSU football. I played tennis in high school, not football. I have absolutely no credentials as a scout.

I do have several years of following recruiting that I would like to think gives my observations and intuitions at least some validity, enough to where I believe in them. J.D. Lott was a great example that a previous poster brought up as a reference point for how I feel about those two particular recruits.

I do think it is true Saban put his best players as ST gunners, like Clayton and Justin Vincent. Miles puts lots of young guys and high-motor types on Special Teams. They have different philosophies. And while I said I appreciated that legacy of Saban's, I think Miles' works very well too because you are putting 11 hungry young guys on the field. Shouldn't have even brought up a Saban vs Miles point as it touches a nerve, and for the record I think that Miles is a better recruiter and evaluator of talent (and character) than Saban, especially OL. You have 85 scholarships to give, and I think Miles gives you a better top to bottom 85 man roster.